Let me say this for the record: people who hold and express fatphobic convictions may identify as queer, but they certainly are not embodying queerness.

By virtue of experiencing genital trauma at the hands of surgeons, I cannot help but feel aligned with the intersex community.

I also think that autistic pleasure is queer, in and of itself. It’s queer in its non-normativity, in its subversiveness, and in its consequent proximity to shame and otherness.

Disabled pleasure knows no bounds, bringing an intimacy that goes beyond romantic love, genitals or penetrative sex.

As Victoria talked more openly to peers about sex, her interest in it and its relationship to fatness grew.

My sense of beauty remains hazy, haunted by the spectre of revolutionary China: a world I know intimately and yet not at all.

Every treatment option for PCOS is designed to maintain my body as one fit for carrying a child, even if that’s not possible or desired.

I’m not so naïve to overlook the dangers of swimming, but I feel connected to the water through my heritage, home and queerness.

It’s important to me that people feel the queer love and joy in my work. It’s important that people are able to see themselves in my work.

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As I looked around, I realised we had in fact grown up to become the fairies we always dreamed of.

I had not wanted tattoos until I came out, which is to say, until I started telling people that I was dating a woman.

The way the Batik is tied onto each individual is rooted in tradition, like what you may see in the villages of Malaysia.

I had ideas that liberation was possible, but I never felt truly comfortable with my body until I started taking pictures of other fat bodies.

The first time I discovered period sex, it was impromptu and with someone I loved. I was really aroused by the idea of it.

As I sat in the hospital courtyard, I often considered how many patients may have had undiagnosed ARFID.

“Nothing about gender identity is fixed,” Ohlert writes. “Its development is often a fluid process, changing throughout a lifetime.

It made me hate being a boy. Not because I didn’t want to be one, but because the world around me was letting me know I was doing a bad job at trying.

My facial hair, body weight, loud voice, or my instinct to fight do not define my gender. I am not just a gender. 

To my knowledge there has never been another drag queen to compete in a bodybuilding competition while in drag.

The way I moved my body was the one thing I could control in a world that confused and bewildered me constantly.

We are excited to announce the next print issue of Archer Magazine – the DISABILITIES issue.